This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, the German composer who created some of the world’s most beloved music. It’s an opportunity to celebrate his genius, a gift manifested in timeless symphonies and other works, including the Moonlight Sonata.
That piece, composed as Beethoven was going deaf, holds special meaning for filmmaker Irene Taylor and her son Jonas. At age 11 Jonas set himself the goal of playing the Moonlight Sonata’s first movement—a challenge for any budding pianist but especially for Jonas, who, like Beethoven, had his own journey with deafness. Taylor explores her son’s relationship with sound, silence and Beethoven’s opus in the HBO documentary Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements.
“I basically asked Jonas if I could just start documenting his effort to learn this piece. At the beginning he was doing it by himself because his teacher wouldn’t teach him,...
That piece, composed as Beethoven was going deaf, holds special meaning for filmmaker Irene Taylor and her son Jonas. At age 11 Jonas set himself the goal of playing the Moonlight Sonata’s first movement—a challenge for any budding pianist but especially for Jonas, who, like Beethoven, had his own journey with deafness. Taylor explores her son’s relationship with sound, silence and Beethoven’s opus in the HBO documentary Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements.
“I basically asked Jonas if I could just start documenting his effort to learn this piece. At the beginning he was doing it by himself because his teacher wouldn’t teach him,...
- 5/22/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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